Burns: The Medical And Forensic Model

When preparing for a burn case, this book provides a rapid, concise treatise on the ramifications of burn injury?from electrical injury to thermal and blast injury. Forensic considerations are presented consistently throughout the text. The medical sections provide essential information on many facets of burn injury and care, including burn characteristics, evaluation, and treatment including pre hospitalization care, critical care, and rehabilitation, toxicology and physiology, hidden toxic dangers, and disaster planning, including building explosions and terrorist attacks. The forensic sections cover diverse topics such as fire and arson investigation, identification of burn victims, fire death investigation and advanced forensic considerations in electrothermal burns.

Alan D. Clark, MD began practicing emergency medicine in 1976. In 1995, convinced that forensic investigation and analysis was a missing component in the acute evaluation of emergency medical and trauma victims, Dr. Clark began to study and teach forensic evaluation for physicians and nurses caring for these patients. Dr. Clark assisted in medico-legal case evaluations, lectured at national forensic conferences, and in 1999 was the medical editor for a monthly forensic continuing medical education audio series for forensic scientists and physicians. Although retired from active medical practice, Dr. Clark continues to teach general forensics and presently researches and lectures on the forensic implications of environmental neurotoxins in neurodevelopmental disorders in children.